FabSwingers.com forum: Do you remember when petrol was £ 1.49 .9 a gallon I miss them days

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

wokingham

£65 to fill up my little 1.1 car today

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"£65 to fill up my little 1.1 car today "

It costs £160 to fill my van now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m turning back to my car.

Fuel is cheaper than the food I use to fuel for the 20 mile cycle to work.

I get more mpg out of diesel than I do out of protein and carbs.

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By *onkeynutWoman
over a year ago

somewhere

£60 filled half my tank today

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blimey

i dont take much notice of fuel prices as run on cherry @ 74p a LTR but just had a look and cannot believe how much it is

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend

good old days, I can remember it being less than £1 a gallon & you could buy an old e type jag for a few hundred unfortunately I could not afford the insurance at that time

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By *ony tunnelMan
over a year ago

birkenhead

I can remember it being 50p(10 shillings)

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

Cost me £90 to fill my car up a few weeks ago, I shudder to imagine what it'll cost next time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Halcyon Days .. getting misty-eyed looking back on it

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

I remember when it used to be 83p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember it being 49p when I first passed my test.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Won’t be long before folk are reminiscing about the days of the £1.50/ltr cost.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

"Won’t be long before folk are reminiscing about the days of the £1.50/ltr cost."

Gawd, pass me a large whiskey, I think I need it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

4 star .. being like 40 odd pence per ltr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Won’t be long before folk are reminiscing about the days of the £1.50/ltr cost.

Gawd, pass me a large whiskey, I think I need it! "

I’m with ya, let’s bunker in and crack the bottle open.

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By *urham 3 riversMan
over a year ago

Co. Durham

showing my old age now

£0-01s-11p this is old money work it out !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Nope. I do remember it being a big deal when it went over £1 a litre though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costs me £5 for 100 miles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nope. I do remember it being a big deal when it went over £1 a litre though. "

Yep, people blockaded fuel depots in protest. The country was brought to chaos. Oh how folk would prefer that now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"£60 filled half my tank today

You drive a Tank

lol

My first bike was a Honda 50cc and even really low I could fill it up for under a £1

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I can remember it being about 70 pence a gallon.

I can recall buying heating oil at 11 pence a litre

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By *illybeachboyMan
over a year ago

Guernsey

When I started driving at 17 I could fill my Mk 2 Ford Escort for a fiver!!

Today my local garage is 149.5p a litre so over £5 a gallon!!

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

I filled up Thursday and it was £1.46 at Asda

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By *wilightTeaseCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Petrol is still way cheaper than perfume, so there is still plenty of wiggle room.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Meanwhile, petroleum companies are making an absolute mint!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I saw it for £1.53.9 yesterday

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"I saw it for £1.53.9 yesterday

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wow !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been paying above 150 for ages as only use momentum 99

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I’m between cars so using one that needs E5 at the moment

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By *r SproutMan
over a year ago

the middle

Was 141.9 when I filled up Wednesday. No idea what it is now though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I saw it for £1.53.9 yesterday

I can top that.

BP station nearest to me £1.59.9 diesel

Blatant profiteering even in the knowledge of a Tesco station still at £1.46.9

Funnily enough, the forecourt of the BP, empty. Tesco….queuing off the main road.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Meanwhile, petroleum companies are making an absolute mint!"

BP and Shell made about £40bn profit I read

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Food I haven't really noticed but fuel is defo taking more of a chunk of my pay packet.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"£65 to fill up my little 1.1 car today "

How far will that get you?

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"Meanwhile, petroleum companies are making an absolute mint!

BP and Shell made about £40bn profit I read

And when you think that the cost of the actual fuel is 30% or less or the pump price, look how much the government must be making out of us

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By *aulj69Man
over a year ago

dunstable

I remember very few cars, my first car had a starting handle and a ch oke. Lol

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

My first gallon of petrol cost 33p lol

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By *osweet69Couple
over a year ago

portsmouth

I can remember when petrol was under 35p a gallon

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By *ch WellMan
over a year ago

Scotland

Thing is, cost of a barrel of crude oil was more expensive 8 years than it is today yet petrol didn't cost anywhere near what it does now. We are quite simply being ripped off and are going to be ripped off even more.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Cost me £70 to fill up today with diesel.

Dont do too many miles now I am working from home so should last me about a month and a half.

Used to last me 2 weeks before I started working from home.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

In 1960 I was buying 4 gallons of petrol for my Mini for just under £1 and we got Green Shield Stamps.

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By *ndy man 200Man
over a year ago

hereford

I can remember 3 gallons of 4 star petrol ..and have enough change out of a pound to buy a half pint of trophy beer

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

Paid £1.72/litre for super duper enleaded yesterday! £85 to fill up!! I think that once it gets warmer I'll park the car and start using my bike!!

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

I also remember putting £10 of petrol in my car lasted all week !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"£60 filled half my tank today

I’d happily fill up your tank any time ??

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By *orkDefenderMan
over a year ago

Just East of Wakefield

"Won’t be long before folk are reminiscing about the days of the £1.50/ltr cost.

Gawd, pass me a large whiskey, I think I need it! "

Just don’t look at the cost of that per litre!

For mainly water too!!!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I can remember it being 50p(10 shillings)"

Shouldn't that be 10 shillings (50p) ?

I remember it going up to 6/4d a gallon..... and we went ballistic.

That's 32p for 4 and half litres.....

The price is advertised in litres cos if it was still sold by the gallon you'd SHIT every time you saw the price.

It's going down in price soon to 99 p

It will be sold by the tablespoon tho ....

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I can remember 3 gallons of 4 star petrol ..and have enough change out of a pound to buy a half pint of trophy beer "
AND a bag of chips

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

"I can remember 3 gallons of 4 star petrol ..and have enough change out of a pound to buy a half pint of trophy beer "

Green shield stamps!

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By *haron StonerTV/TS
over a year ago

Haywards Heath

Yeah and I remember paying my staff £2.25 an hour with a generous two paid weeks off a year! Under 21s were £1.85 an hour.

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By *wilightTeaseCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Do you remember the good old times when Petrol was £1.69….

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Do you remember the good old times when Petrol was £1.69….

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wow yes only a week ago wow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only a matter of time before it'll cost a garden hosepipe and a Jerry can to fill up.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Need to stop driving past my local petrol station.

In the last few days it has gone up 5p per litre every day.

Now at 179.9 for diesel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blimey

i dont take much notice of fuel prices as run on cherry @ 74p a LTR but just had a look and cannot believe how much it is

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not for long no new supplies and illegal to sell from 1 may best stock pile it unless you no anyone in Ireland

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"And when you think that the cost of the actual fuel is 30% or less or the pump price, look how much the government must be making out of us

Fuel is double taxed too

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"Blimey

i dont take much notice of fuel prices as run on cherry @ 74p a LTR but just had a look and cannot believe how much it is

not for long no new supplies and illegal to sell from 1 may best stock pile it unless you no anyone in Ireland "

You are incorrect.

There has been a reduction in the list of legitimate users.

Still buying it and will be for the foreseeable future.

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

Filled my daily driver up late last week, can't remember what standard unleaded was but after £20 I'd filled up 12 litres

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's absolutely horrendous. £110 to fill up my husbands vehicle and £65 for mine.

Not sure how we can keep going at £175 just on fuel a week. It's a concern.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was 89p per ltr when I started driving! Cost me £70 for a weeks fuel where it would cost between £40-50 a week a few months back. Considering going electric.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blimey

i dont take much notice of fuel prices as run on cherry @ 74p a LTR but just had a look and cannot believe how much it is

not for long no new supplies and illegal to sell from 1 may best stock pile it unless you no anyone in Ireland "

Nah its still available everywhere, just cant be used for commercial heating now, building, generators ect.

Still available as it is for agriculture & marine ect

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Went to a supermarket petrol station yesterday , thought it might be cheaper but that was £1.82 diesel.

Put £20 in and it didnt move the needle much.

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